Simple Sponge Cake

So last night I decided I would make a sponge cake, chocolate actually. The recipe is from an old recipe for Lamingtons but you don't have to do the cutting and icing part do you!

Ingredients ready to go

 

6 Eggs

6 Eggs

2/3 cup caster sugar

1/3 cup corn flour

1/2 cup plain flour

1/3 cup Self Raising flour

1/3 cup cocoa (if making it chocolate)

Grease your tin, either the slab for lamingtons or birthday cake, whatever you choose to make it for, or a round doughnut one like me if you are making if for fun, you choose.

Egg mix before sugar

2/3 cup caster sugar

Beat the eggs in a bowl with electric mixer until thick and creamy, will take about 10 minutes

Gradually add the sugar (actually I add it all in one shot, still works)

1/2 cup Plain Flour

1/3 cup Self Raising Flour

1/3 cup Corn flour

Sift all the flours and cocoa if making chocolate, sift them a few times to ensure they are mixed well.

You can cheat I have found, put them all in a bowl together and use a wire whisk to mix them, this also aerates it all.

1/3 cup cocoa (if making chocolate)

 

Turn your mixer to low and add the flour gradually until almost incorporated.

Use a spatula to ensure it’s all mixed well.

Chocolate Sponge ready for oven

Vanilla sponge ready for oven

Pour into prepared pan and bake in oven 180°C for about 30-45 minutes.

Cool in tin for about 5-10 minutes then turn out onto cooling rack or the serving plate and let it cool further.

Chocolate sponge ready

This is what happens when you usea fancy tin - Kugelhoph

From here you can decide how to decorate, slice it up and make lamingtons, or slice it into layers and put icing in the layers.

Vanilla sponge ready

If making lamingtons, the icing mixture is:

4 cups icing sugar

½ cup cocoa

15g butter, melted

2/3 cup milk

2 cups coconut (approximately)

Pour milk, cocoa and icing sugar (1/2 cup at a time) in with melted butter

It works best if icing is warm as it is runnier and you are less likely to run out.

So if you want to warm it a bit more microwave it for 30 seconds each time you choose to warm it.

Using a spoon with holes in it or just a fork, dip the sliced and diced cake into the icing

When the piece of cake is coated drain a little and cover in coconut.

Put aside to set.

 

Lamingtons

  Lamingtons can be eaten straight away or left in an airtight container

(preferably in the fridge if its hot steamy Aussie summer weather)